From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@home.com>,
Cygwin List <cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Installation problems
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 05:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000802120815.18464.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com> (raw)
--- "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@home.com> wrote:
>
> IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICER IF "SETUP" checked the mount table from
> HKLM & HKCU first and installed according to that.
>
That's what the "Just me" or "All Users" is for. See my webpages.
> During the install, I got multiple error messages of the form:
> 1) tar: error creating symlink C://usr/lib/mingwin -> mingwn32
This should be C:/usr/lib/mingw -> mingw32
> 2) cannot find C://bin/g++.exe to link c++.exe to.
>
This should be linking c++ to g++ *NOT* g++ to c++ as g++ is a deprecated name.
> PS: THE ERROR MESSAGE BOX comes up hidden under the progress box. I
> thought the system was frozen and restarted three times before I
> figured that one out. You could maybe make it come up on top, or
> change the size or location? Tnx.
>
Since we're talking wishes, "leave the windows where the user moves them to"
would be a good one also. But, I'm not going to mention it.
> At the end of the install, error:
>
> Cannot open (null) for writing.
>
> Cygwin.bat runs, and I've attached the cygcheck output; but do I
> need to modify anything here?
>
> [two minutes later . . .] AHA!
> Something needs to be changed, my "HOME"=/home/superbiskit where I
> mount E:\HOME /home. But my cygcheck output went to
> E:\HOME\superbiskit\'\home\superbiskit\.
>
I noticed that, where did that come from? Everything else looked good.
Cheers,
=====
---
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-08-02 5:08 Earnie Boyd [this message]
2000-08-02 7:07 ` DJ Delorie
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2009-06-15 5:28 Neanderthelle Jones
2009-06-15 8:31 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2009-06-15 8:47 ` Neanderthelle Jones
2005-04-15 3:02 George Sohos
2005-04-15 4:41 ` George Sohos
2005-04-15 5:09 ` Brian Dessent
2005-04-15 18:47 ` George Sohos
2004-06-08 16:56 Chris Carlson
2003-09-02 11:49 Hoyt Bailey
2003-09-02 14:23 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-09-02 1:13 Hoyt Bailey
2003-09-02 1:37 ` Larry Hall
2003-09-02 1:50 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-11-10 8:46 Todd Jones
2002-11-10 8:58 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-12-12 2:46 SHAJI K K
2001-12-12 7:23 ` Jason Tishler
2001-11-11 8:26 installation problems Robert Collins
2000-08-02 4:42 Installation problems David A. Cobb
2000-08-02 7:05 ` DJ Delorie
2000-08-02 7:56 ` Norman Vine
1999-11-15 6:41 Earnie Boyd
1999-11-30 23:39 ` Earnie Boyd
1999-11-13 19:53 Ryan & Brigette Ramsey
1999-11-30 23:39 ` Ryan & Brigette Ramsey
1998-12-27 11:52 N8TM
1998-12-27 7:03 Cjfogg
1998-12-27 21:28 ` Chris McFarlane
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1998-12-23 20:10 ` DJ Delorie
1998-12-23 10:49 Cjfogg
1998-12-26 16:39 ` Michael Hirmke
1997-07-03 6:05 Xavier.Fornari
1997-01-31 5:54 Phaichayont
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